Explorations of combined nonsolvent and thermally induced phase separation (N-TIPS) method for fabricating novel PVDF hollow fiber membranes using mixed diluents by Zhao, Jie, Chong, Jeng Yi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…However, previous approaches have been subjected to either the formation of macrovoids or dense layer due to the dominant NIPS effect, or required sophisticated instruments and operation skills. …”
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Infectious diseases acquired by international travellers visiting the USA by Stoney, Rhett J, Esposito, Douglas H., Kozarsky, Phyllis, Hamer, Davidson H., Grobusch, Martin P., Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Libman, Michael, Gautret, Philippe, Lim, Poh Lian, Leder, Karin, Schwartz, Eli, Sotir, Mark J., Licitra, Carmelo

“…Conclusions: International travellers to the USA acquired a diverse array of mostly cosmopolitan infectious diseases, including nonspecific respiratory, gastrointestinal, dermatologic and systemic infections comparable to what has been reported among travellers to low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Modulating macrophage phenotype by sustained microRNA delivery improves host‐implant integration by Lin, Junquan, Ibrahim Mohamed, Lin, Po Hen, Shirahama, Hitomi, Milbreta, Ulla, Sieow, Je Lin, Peng, Yanfen, Bugiani, Marianna, Wong, Siew Cheng, Levinson, Howard, Chew, Sing Yian

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Impedance shaping method to improve grid-connected inverter under weak grid condition by Zhao, Bohui

“…Due to the popularity of renewable energy, e.g., wind power and solar energy, renewable energy generation systems(REGs) have been preferred as eco-friendly power generation systems. …”
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Optical coherence tomography angiography imaging to monitor anti-VEGF treatment of corneal vascularization in a rabbit model by Devarajan, Kavya, Ong, Hon Shing, Lwin, Nyein C., Chua, Jacqueline, Schmetterer, Leopold, Mehta, Jodhbir Singh, Ang, Marcus

“…Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a well-established non-invasive retinal vascular imaging technique. It has been recently adapted to image the anterior segment and has shown good potential to image corneal vascularisation. …”
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What does acne genetics teach us about disease pathogenesis? by Common, J. E. A., Barker, J. N., van Steensel, Maurice A. M.

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NiMn-based bimetal-organic framework nanosheets supported on multi-channel carbon fibers for efficient oxygen electrocatalysis by Cheng, Weiren, Lu, Xue Feng, Luan, Deyan, Lou, David Xiong Wen

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Synthesis of Co-doped MoS2 monolayers with enhanced valley splitting by Zhou, Jiadong, Lin, Junhao, Sims, Hunter, Jiang, Chongyun, Cong, Chunxiao, Brehm, John A., Zhang, Zhaowei, Niu, Lin, Chen, Yu, Zhou, Yao, Wang, Yanlong, Liu, Fucai, Zhu, Chao, Yu, Ting, Suenaga, Kazu, Mishra, Rohan, Pantelides, Sokrates T., Zhu, Zhen-Gang, Gao, Weibo, Liu, Zheng, Zhou, Wu

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Anion texturing towards dendrite-free Zn anode for aqueous rechargeable battery by Yuan, Du, Zhao, Jin, Ren, Hao, Chen, Yingqian, Chua, Rodney, Tang, Ernest Jun Jie, Cai, Yi, Edison, Eldho, Manalastas, William, Jr., Wong, Ming Wah, Srinivasan, Madhavi

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"Meta-atomless" architecture based on an irregular continuous fabric of coupling-tuned identical nanopillars enables highly efficient and achromatic metasurfaces by Yaǧcl, H. Bilge, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…However, to date, a pending and fundamental problem of this approach has been the low device efficiency that such resulting metasurface components suffer, an unwanted side effect of large lattice constants that are used for preventing intercoupling of their meta-atoms. …”
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Metformin alters human host responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in healthy subjects by Lachmandas, Ekta, Eckold, Clare, Böhme, Julia, Koeken, Valerie A. C. M., Mardiana Marzuki, Blok, Bastiaan, Arts, Rob J. W., Chen, Jinmiao, Teng, Karen W. W., Ratter, Jacqueline, Smolders, Elise J., Van den Heuvel, Corina, Stienstra, Rinke, Dockrell, Hazel M., Newell, Evan, Netea, Mihai G., Singhal, Amit, Cliff, Jacqueline M., Van Crevel, Reinout

“…Background" Metformin, the most widely administered diabetes drug, has been proposed as a candidate adjunctive host-directed therapy for tuberculosis, but little is known about its effects on human host responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. …”
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Production of ammonia feedstock by novel solid oxide electrolysis cell by Haziq Mahmud

“…Some interesting results have been obtained from the experimental investigations. …”
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Electrically and thermally tunable smooth silicon metasurfaces for broadband terahertz antireflection by Ding, Lu, Luo, Xianshu, Cheng, Liang, Thway, Maung, Song, Junfeng, Chua, Soo Jin, Chia, Elbert E. M., Teng, Jinghua

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MOF-based hierarchical structures for solar-thermal clean water production by Ma, Qinglang, Yin, Pengfei, Zhao, Meiting, Luo, Zhiyong, Huang, Ying, He, Qiyuan, Yu, Yifu, Liu, Zhengqing, Hu, Zhaoning, Chen, Bo, Zhang, Hua

“…However, solar water evaporators that exhibit both high water vapor generation ability and anti-oil-fouling ability have not been reported. Here, a unique metal-organic-framework-based hierarchical structure, referred to as MOF-based hierarchical structure (MHS), is rationally designed and prepared, which simultaneously displays a high solar absorption and a superhydrophilic and underwater superoleophobic surface property. …”
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Utilization of biomass pectin polymer to build high efficiency electrode architectures with sturdy construction and fast charge transfer structure to boost sodium storage performan... by Zhao, Jing, Yang, Xu, Zhang, Yu, Loh, Xian Jun, Hu, Xiaodong, Chen, Gang, Du, Fei, Yan, Qingyu

“…To improve the cycle stability and rate performance of Na₃V₂(PO₄)₃, most attention has been directed to improving the electronic conductivity by carbon compositing. …”
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P2P energy trading among isolated microgrids in the remote area by Huang, Rui

“…Secondly, to eliminate the load imbalance caused by the difference of each MG's power generation, a network framework for each MG in the MMG system to conduct P2P energy trading activity has been established. Combining with the emission standard of carbon allowance, the incentive mechanism of each MG is set to improve the robustness of the model and the rationality of each MG while trading. …”
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Toward intelligent multizone thermal control with multiagent deep reinforcement learning by Li, Jie, Zhang, Wei, Gao, Guanyu, Wen, Yonggang, Jin, Guangyu, Christopoulos, Georgios

“…Many research works have been proposed to save energy while maintaining a comfortable thermal condition. …”
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The January 11, 2018, Mw 6.0 Bago-Yoma, Myanmar earthquake : a shallow thrust event within the deforming Bago-Yoma range by Fadil, Wardah, Lindsey, Eric Ostrom, Wang, Yu, Maung, Phyo Maung, Luo, Heng, Swe, Tint Lwin, Tun, Pa Pa, Wei, Shengji

“…The seismic hazard posed by these active faults has been increasing with the development of infrastructure such as dams within the BYR. …”
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Precious metal price prediction using deep neural networks by Peng, Zhiling

“…Therefore, how to predict the trend of the gold price effectively has been long concerned by researchers from many areas, and such prediction can be really helpful to control the risk of personal investment as well as adjust the national economic strategies in time. …”
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Speeding up deep neural network training with decoupled and analytic learning by Zhuang, Huiping

“…The BP requires a sequential passing of activations and gradients, which has been recognized as lockings (i.e., the forward, backward, and update lockings). …”
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